2nd Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication
This revised and fully updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication provides a state-of-the-art overview of environmental communication theory, practice and research.
The momentous changes witnessed in the politics of the environment as well as in the nature of media and public communication in recent years have made the study and understanding of environmental communication ever more pertinent. This is reflected in this second edition, including a number of exciting new chapters concerned with: environmental communication in an age of misinformation and fake news; environmental communication, community and social transformation; environmental justice; and advances in methods for the analysis of mediated environmental communication.Signalling the key dimensions of public mediated communication, the Handbook is organised around five thematic parts:
- the history and development of the field of environmental communication research,
- the sources, communicators and media professionals involved in producing environmental communication,
- research on news, entertainment media and wider cultural representations of the environment,
- the social and political implications of environmental communication,
- and the likely future trajectories for the field.
Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text is a must for scholars and students of environmental communication across multiple subject areas, including environmental studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies and related disciplines.
Introduction
Anders Hansen and Robert Cox
PART I Environment, Communication and Environmental Communication: emergence and development of a field
1 Emergence and growth of the field of environmental communication
Robert Cox and Stephen Depoe
2 Social science approaches to environment, media and communication
James Cantrill
3 Discourse and rhetorical analysis approaches to environment, media, and communication
Jennifer Peeples and Mollie Murphy
4 Environmental Justice: a third pillar of environmental communication research
Taylor N. Johnson, Kensey I. Dressler, Nicolas Hernandez and Danielle Endres
5 The place of the environment in the field of communication for development and social change
Patrick Murphy
PART II Producing environmental communication: sources, communicators, media and media professionals
Sources/communicators
6 When environmental scientists go public
Sharon Dunwoody
7 The media/communication strategies of environmental NGOs
Robert Cox and Steve Schwarze
8 Managing the climate apocalypse: Think tanks, policy planning groups and the corporate capture of sustainable development
William Dinan and David Miller
9 Protests, publics and participation (still in an environmental age)
Libby Lester and Simon Cottle
10 Insights and opportunities in public participation practice: applying collaborative learning in environmental policy decision situations
Gregg B. Walker, Steven E. Daniels and Jens Emborg
Media and media professionals
11 Environmental reporters in a time of change
David B. Sachsman and JoAnn Myer Valenti
12 News organisation(s) and the production of environmental news
Alison Anderson
13 Improving environmental reporting: Forging synergies with citizen science and citizen journalism
Stuart Allan
14 Transformative Journalisms: How the global ecological crisis is transforming journalism
Michael Brüggemann, Jannis Frech and Torsten Schäfer
PART III Covering the environment: news media, entertainment media and cultural representations of the environment
News media
15 Big data and computational methods: methodological advances for analyzing mediated environmental communication
Valerie Hase and Mike S Schäfer
16 Communicating Climate Change in the Anthropocene: The dynamic cultural politics of climate change news coverage and social media around the world
Michael K. Goodman, Marisa M. McNatt and Maxwell T. Boykoff
17 Environmental communication, global trade and being here
Libby Lester
18 An introduction to misinformation and environmental communication
Christopher D. Wirz and Dominique Brossard
19 Online climate denialism: eco-systems and echo chambers
William Dinan, Chiara L Bernardi, Victoria Esteves and Steven Harkins
Entertainment media, advertising and cultural representations
20 Representations of the environment on television, and their effects
James Shanahan, Katherine McComas and Mary Beth Deline
21 Cartoons and the environment
Anne Marie Todd
22 Cinema, ecology and environment
Pat Brereton
23 Nature, environment and advertising
Anders Hansen
24 Cultural representations of the environment beyond mainstream media
Andy Opel
PART IV Social and political implications of environmental communication
25 Mapping media’s role in environmental thought and action
Susanna Priest
26 Public perceptions of climate change and their variation across audiences
Lorraine Whitmarsh and Kaloyan Mitev
27 Engaging diverse audiences with climate change: message strategies for Global Warming's Six Americas
Connie Roser-Renouf, Justin Rolfe-Redding, Neil Stenhouse, Anthony Leiserowitz and Edward Maibach
28 Communication and Community Transformation
Tarla Rai Peterson, Andrea Marie Feldpausch-Parker and Nicia Givá
29 (Dis)placed communication, solastalgia, and a climate change diaspora
James Cantrill and Rebecca Budesky
PART V Conclusions: future trajectories of environment and communication
30 Beyond the post-political zeitgeist 2.0
Pieter Maeseele
31 Speaking to the heart of the matter: the emergence of a humanistic environmental communication
Susanne Moser
Biography
Anders Hansen is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK.
Robert Cox (PhD University of Pittsburgh) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication and the Curriculum in the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Hansen and Cox’s updated Handbook powerfully illustrates the importance of environmental communication scholarship and practice in contributing to societal change. Reflecting upon the field’s achievements thus far, the editors and multiple authors of this collection also help (re)orient its future directions, making issues of justice a critical and necessary focus of its work."Julie Doyle, Professor of Media and Communication, University of Brighton, UK.
